The following snippet of C code shows my attempt to create a Ruby
string object by invoking the "new" method on the Ruby String class.
I know it would be easier to do this using the rb_str_new or
rb_str_new2 functions. However, I'm trying to understand how to
create arbitrary Ruby objects from C using the "new" method. Can you
spot what's wrong with this code?
ID class_id = rb_intern("String");
VALUE stringClass = rb_const_get(rb_cClass, class_id); // wrong
1st parameter?
ID method_id = rb_intern("new");
VALUE s1 = rb_funcall(stringClass, method_id, 1, "test");
printf("s1 = %s!\n", RSTRING(s1)->ptr);